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A lot of people consider Self Storage to be a very simple business of Metal buildings with no maintenance and counting cash. They are right to a degree, and then I go through the complexities. I made the same error when I started looking at Bus...
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We had a tenant who didn't pay and went to auction. The liens were returned as non deliverable, emails weren't answered, phone calls not returned. The purchaser of the unit recognized the tenant as the girlfriend of a high ranking gang member. He did say some of the items were being shared with the...Yesterday, 03:09 PM
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We’ve been open almost 3 yrs and we just did our 1st rate increase! We only raised the rate to people that have been there right at a year or have been late paying every month.
so we get a message today and the guys says instead of a $10 increase how about a $10 decrease!!!!
I really...22 July 2021, 05:45 PM